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... regard to this particular , that God declares his own infinite superiority to them , and that they are but vanity , not what they should be to entitle them to divine honours . " The Portion of Jacob is not like them : for he is the ...
... regard to this particular , that God declares his own infinite superiority to them , and that they are but vanity , not what they should be to entitle them to divine honours . " The Portion of Jacob is not like them : for he is the ...
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... regard to moral subjects , to involve righteous and unrighteous persons in one common and promiscuous ruin . It was a most solemn and affecting oc- casion that called forth from the lips of the sympathizing patriarch the pious ...
... regard to moral subjects , to involve righteous and unrighteous persons in one common and promiscuous ruin . It was a most solemn and affecting oc- casion that called forth from the lips of the sympathizing patriarch the pious ...
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... regards as his proper charge . He has not selected any part of creation , and set it up as an ultimate end , bringing all the rest into subordination to it . His dispensations towards one are of the same final importance , as his ...
... regards as his proper charge . He has not selected any part of creation , and set it up as an ultimate end , bringing all the rest into subordination to it . His dispensations towards one are of the same final importance , as his ...
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... regard to himself , or that his attributes might be brought into view . All active beings , who feel themselves at liberty to dispose of themselves and their time as they please , will engage in such an enterprize , or such a spe cies ...
... regard to himself , or that his attributes might be brought into view . All active beings , who feel themselves at liberty to dispose of themselves and their time as they please , will engage in such an enterprize , or such a spe cies ...
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... regard to himself , it is right , that he should continue to have the same end in view , in all his dispensations . Justice to himself requires , that he act in such a man . er , as will most effectually dignify and ren- illustrious his ...
... regard to himself , it is right , that he should continue to have the same end in view , in all his dispensations . Justice to himself requires , that he act in such a man . er , as will most effectually dignify and ren- illustrious his ...
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Page 171 - How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit...
Page 149 - Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ; which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being justißed by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life
Page 100 - But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 177 - But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Page 132 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 134 - For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying : — Surely blessing I will bless thee, And multiplying I will multiply thee.
Page 134 - If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 181 - For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me : and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Page 304 - And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you : to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
Page 24 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly...